Posted on 02/28/2014 4:53:37 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
Despite President Obama's focus on the soaring costs of a college education, area universities are poised to again raise their prices in excess of the core rate of inflation.
Costs at the University of Pennsylvania in 2014-15 will exceed $60,000 for the first time, under a fee increase announced at the board of trustees meeting Thursday. That's a 3.9 percent increase over last year's overall tuition, fees, and room and board.
Several other private colleges and universities around the region also have set their cost increases for next year
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Madness !
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Seems reasonable...
All those people on the Main Line can afford it though.
Charging THAT much for a Communist education is, well, capitalistic!
In a nutshell, this is out-of-control insane.
Ain’t Marxism grand.
$60K/yr for pc/marxist babysitting .. apparently a lotta folks out there with more $ than sense.
Good news for Americans! While beedy eye cuomo in NYS announces free associates degrees for criminals in prison and zippy passes laws for free higher ed for illegal aliens. Isnt it good being an American and having our elected officials screw the living daylights out of us
one of the universal constants is the federal government will screw up everything it gets involved in. more taxpayer funded student loans equals highr colleger costs.
Got to pay for those Associate Vice Presidents for Equity and Diversity. Think I’m exaggerating? Just google it!
Costs at the University of Pennsylvania in 2014-15 will exceed $60,000 for the first time...considering they’ve had two freshmen commit suicide there already this year, they might dedicate some of that new money to some studies on what’s in the air there at Penn that’s driving these poor kids over the edge.....
Literally.
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